62. Corporations control the major media?

This is a typical example of the kind of emotional appeals and propaganda that MSNBC brainwashes their "liberal" viewers with -

Can you believe that piece of crap actually ran on the Rachel Maddow and Ed Shultz shows just to brainwash liberals?

Here's another example -

Our opponents own everything so it's hard to compete with that kind of power.

The propaganda model is a conceptual model in political economy advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that states how propaganda, including systemic biases, function in mass media. The model seeks to explain how populations are manipulated and how consent for economic, social and political policies is "manufactured" in the public mind due to this propaganda.

The theory posits that the way in which news is structured (through advertising, media ownership, government sourcing and others) creates an inherent conflict of interest which acts as propaganda for undemocratic forces.